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O.K., maybe we can't call it "outing" since everyone already knows and for some mysterious reason can't quite declare it as fact, but producer Mark Ronson's girlfriend told the U.K.'s Mirror that his younger sister, Samantha Ronson, and Lindsay Lohan are in fact a couple.

According to various tabloid reports, Daisy Lowe, 19, Gavin Rossdale's daughter from his first marriage to singer turned fashion designer Pearl Lowe, and Mr. Ronson have been dating for a couple of months.

"Sam is an amazing girl. The four of us had a brilliant time—a real laugh," Ms. Lowe told the paper. "Lindsay is really down to earth.  read more »

A spokesperson for the McCains said that the intern that was supposedly responsible for recipes lifted off of the Food Network site, has been "dealt with swiftly," which we find scary. [AP]  read more »

Who can claim the title of 2007’s most socially social New York society clan? In a major year-end party wrap cobbled together by Style.com, the aesthetically-inclined Web site asks—and, thank gawd, answers—that very question.

On one side of the party divide is the Peter and Minnie Davis/Tinsley Mortimer team. (Mr. and Ms. Davis are, for those who didn’t know, Ms. Mortimer’s siblings-in-law.) On the other: Ann Dexter-Jones and her three party-hardy kids—Samantha, Mark and Charlotte.

As Style points out, it’s been quite a year for both clans: Topper and Ms. Mortimer’s wedding got a major write-up in the Times; and Ms. Davis tied the knot with Syriana director Stephen Gaghan. (What they don’t mention, however, is that 2007 was also the year society scribe Mr. Davis found true love in a certain young social, Paul Johnson-Calderon.)

Meanwhile, Mr. Ronson’s single, Stop Me, climbed to the number-two spot on the British charts—no small feat, to be sure. What’s more, Samantha Ronson was, for a while anyway, queen of the tabloids, soaking up the buzz as her friendship with Lindsay Lohan continued to heat up. And then there’s their younger sis Charlotte, who we caught up with not long ago at her Nolita boutique, where she was introducing her 2007 Resort collection. Ms. Dexter-Jones, too, told us all about her new lease on life post-divorce, loving the high-thread-count sheets at her new digs in the Bowery Hotel.

In the end, though, there can only be one winner; (as Heidi Klum might say, “You’re either in or you’re out.”) And in this case, Patrick McMullan must pick the winning bunch—“that ultimate litmus test of social visibility.” While the Dexter-Jones/Ronson squad racked up an impressive 422 photos credits on the social shutterbug’s Web site, the Davis/Mortimer clan reigns supreme. The trendy trio said "cheese" for Mr. McMullan’s lens a whopping 732 times.

“It was kind of inspired by mosaic travels," said Charlotte Ronson about her Resort 2007 collection previewing this week. She was standing in the middle of her small shoebox-shaped boutique on Mulberry Street in Nolita. The clothes were piled up on white shelving units in a take-it-or-leave-it style that suited the 30-year-old socialite and designer. “Just like a vacation after a long fall, it’s nice to have that soft wearable—but still, like, dark tones that I can wear in fall, so you don’t look too …” she said, eyeing this reporter’s light-colored sweater.

Though she doesn’t get to travel as much as she’d like, Ms. Ronson said she was influenced by trips to Spain, Ibiza and the Caribbean—“anywhere the sun shines.” She looks up to fellow clothiers like Rachel Comey, APC, Stella McCartney and Chloe, but she thinks it’s important to showcase young designers, too. (In the store, she has a case filled with retro-looking jewelry designed by a Teen Vogue assistant named Mary Kate Steinmiller.)

Ms. Ronson, whose brother, Mark Ronson, and sister, Samantha Ronson, have achieved a certain amount of notoriety in the music industry, has high ambitions for her own label. On top of her New York and Tokyo stores, she said she’d like to open others in L.A. and London. And she would also like to try her hand at designing a line of baby apparel. How cute! At the moment, however, she's just looking forward to spending the holidays at her sister's in L.A. “I’m going to stay with her Thanksgiving and cook—probably everything but turkey.”

So, is Ms. Ronson a vegetarian?

“No, I just am not a huge fan of turkey,” she said.

Mark Ronson's Authentic Shit:

So we’ve labeled Mark Ronson a trust fund DJ before but he’s actually good at what he does. He comes from a silver-spoon family (his mom is socialite/writer Ann Dexter-Jones, he’s the stepson of Foreigner’s guitarist Mick Jones and brother to Lindsay Lohan’s party partner, Samantha Ronson, (they're suing Perez Hilton btw) and Charlotte Ronson, his designer sis). He honed his skills at dingy Vassar and NYU kid haunts and became a renowned DJ in the ’90s for drawing socialites and rap stars to his downtown party at the now-shuttered club Life.

He keeps the party alive on East Village Radio every Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. with his Authentic Shit show (subscribe to the podcast here). In the tiny, closet-sized EVR booth on 1st Avenue, he plays classic hip-hop and R&B with new remixes of the acts he produces including Robbie Williams, Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse. As head honcho at Allido Records, he also pimps out tracks for his acts like Rhymefest and D.C. rapper Wale, whose summer jam “Ice Cream Girl” was recently featured in this scene of HBO’s Entourage.

Sometimes Mr. Ronson is out of town, touring as a DJ, but even his fill-ins, like Nick Catchdubs from Fool’s Gold Records and DJ Ayres and Cosmo Baker of The Rub, have been making great playlists for pre-Friday night festivities.

Listen to a recent show here. Playlist is here.  read more »